Representations vs Algorithms: Symbols and Geometry in Robotics

Speaker: Nick Roy , CSAIL, AeroAstro, MIT

Date: Tuesday, November 03, 2020

Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM Note: all times are in the Eastern Time Zone

Public: Yes

Location: Virtual | Webinar

Event Type: Seminar

Room Description: Virtual | Webinar

Host: Prof. Tomaso A. Poggio

Contact: Kathleen Sullivan, kdsulliv@csail.mit.edu

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Abstract: In the last few years, the ability for robots to understand and operate in the world around them has advanced considerably. Examples include the growing number of self-driving car systems, the considerable work in robot mapping, and the growing interest in home and service robots. However, one limitation is that robots most often reason and plan using very geometric models of the world, such as point features, dense occupancy grids and action cost maps. To be able to plan and reason over long length and timescales, as well as planning more complex missions, robots need to be able to reason about abstract concepts such as landmarks, segmented objects and tasks (among other representations). I will talk about recent work in joint reasoning about semantic representations and physical representations and what these joint representations mean for planning and decision making.

This seminar series talk will be hosted remotely via Zoom.

Zoom link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/96323330576

Research Areas:
Algorithms & Theory, AI & Machine Learning, Robotics

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Created by Kathleen Sullivan at Thursday, October 29, 2020 at 11:29 AM.